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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Neal Woodman</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2021</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;div id="33f98f02-708b-4904-8a51-18d18136a65b" class="widget literatumPublicationContentWidget none hyperlink blueAccentTop widget-none  widget-compact-all"&gt;&lt;div class="wrapped "&gt;&lt;div class="widget-body body body-none  body-compact-all"&gt;&lt;div class="publication-tabs ja publication-tabs-dropdown"&gt;&lt;div class="tabs tabs-widget"&gt;&lt;div class="tab-content "&gt;&lt;div class="tab tab-pane active"&gt;&lt;div class="hlFld-Abstract"&gt;&lt;div class="abstractSection abstractInFull"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thaddeus William Harris described the green mole of Maine,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Condylura prasinata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae), in the July 1825 issue of the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts&lt;/i&gt;, and this was considered the original description of the species throughout most of the nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century, taxonomists began instead to cite an earlier notice in the June 1825 issue of the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Journal of Science and Arts&lt;/i&gt;. This short article also described the species, but also established a separate genus for it,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Astromycter&lt;/i&gt;, despite Harris’s indications elsewhere that the species was congeneric with the star-nosed mole,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Condylura cristata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(Linnaeus, 1758). Moreover, the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Journal of Science and Arts&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;article cited as its source the “&lt;i&gt;Machias Star&lt;/i&gt;”, indicating the possibility of an even earlier description of the animal. With&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Astromycter prasinata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in synonymy with&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. cristata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for over a century, little effort has been exerted to determine whether earlier source materials exist or why, within two months, the green mole was allocated to two different genera by its describer. The question is taxonomically relevant today because&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. prasinata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;predates&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. cristata nigra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;Smith, 1940), as an available name for north-eastern populations of star-nosed moles. If subspecies of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. cristata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;are to be recognized, the north-eastern subspecies should correctly bear the name&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. cristata prasinata&lt;/i&gt;. In fact, authority for both genus- and species-group names for the green mole have been misattributed since 1825. The descriptions of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. prasinata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by Thaddeus William Harris in the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Journal of Science and Arts&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;were preceded by at least three published descriptions of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;A. prasinatus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by Thaddeus Mason Harris, his father.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="31b7ef91-fbf2-4ab5-a348-8bd39e261ea9" class="widget general-html none back-to-top widget-none  widget-compact-horizontal"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3366/anh.2021.0719</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Edinburgh University Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>The green mole, Astromycter prasinatus T. M. Harris, 1825 (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae): An origin story</dc:title>
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